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Maranaw carabao horn sarimanok browse these categories for related items... Directory: Vintage Arts: Regional Art: Asian: Southeast Asian: Folk Art: Pre 1960: item # 936338 Please refer to our stock # MRN012 when inquiring.
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| A sarimanok (bird or cock) made of carabao (water buffalo) horn, embellished with ivory and silver, from the Maranaw people of western Mindanao Island, Philippines circa the 1950s. The carabao horn is engraved with the famous Maranaw floral (“okir”) design; the eyes, beak, comb, wattle, and leaf-like pattern on top of the wings are made of ivory. On the breast, lower neck, back of the tail, and perch are sheets of silver also in okir design. Measuring 12 inches from the perch to the tip of the tail plume and 6 inches from the tip of one wing to the tip of the other, this sarimanok is in very good to excellent condition. This sarimanok can be pulled out of its rotatable insertion at its fish-like perch. Considered the most important art object of the Maranaw, the sarimanok is the symbol of a messenger. | ||
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